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With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.

In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.

We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it.

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

I thought we'd just sequence the genome once and that would be sufficient for most things in people's lifetimes. Now we're seeing how changeable and adaptable it is, which is why we're surviving and evolving as a species.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.